/* dirname.c -- return all but the last element in a path Copyright (C) 1990 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */ #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H #include #endif #ifdef STDC_HEADERS #include #else char *malloc (); #endif #if defined(STDC_HEADERS) || defined(HAVE_STRING_H) #include #else #include #ifndef strrchr #define strrchr rindex #endif #endif /* Return the leading directories part of PATH, allocated with malloc. If out of memory, return 0. Assumes that trailing slashes have already been removed. */ char * dirname (path) char *path; { char *newpath; char *slash; int length; /* Length of result, not including NUL. */ slash = strrchr (path, '/'); if (slash == 0) { /* File is in the current directory. */ path = "."; length = 1; } else { /* Remove any trailing slashes from the result. */ while (slash > path && *slash == '/') --slash; length = slash - path + 1; } newpath = (char *) malloc (length + 1); if (newpath == 0) return 0; strncpy (newpath, path, length); newpath[length] = 0; return newpath; }